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The vast, vast majority of criminals are too dumb to do any of that.
by ProjectArcturis 5y ago
The vast, vast majority of criminals are too dumb to do any of that.
- pessimizer 5y agoBut we don't need new tools to catch criminals who were always easy to catch.
- nitrogen 5y agoThe ones that get caught, at least. I worry that availability bias makes it hard to know what "true" crime looks like, so we end up chasing the wrong things.
- mywittyname 5y agoPeople have gotten away with heinous crimes for decades, only to ever be caught by chance. There are a staggering amount of unsolved murders and missing persons who have never been found. Even white collar crimes with clear paper trails can go on for decades. As long as you're not committing a high profile crime, and you make a informed effort to minimize and/or erase as much evidence as possible, you're pretty likely to get away with a crime.
- raxxorrax 5y agoAnd they never teach that in schools.